Saed Hindash/The Star-LedgerRutgers coach Greg Schiano could have a plush lounge at his disposal during the recruiting process.

UPDATE, 10:15 a.m.: The Rutgers University Board of Governors approved on Tuesday the construction of the football recruiting lounge, the school announced in a statement. The recruiting center will be named the Brown Football Recruiting Lounge and Welcome Center after Greg Brown, a 1982 Rutgers alumnus and one of the project's donors. Brown and another donor, whose name was not released, donated $4.875 million specifically to cover the cost of the recruiting center, the school said. Construction is scheduled to begin in August.

The Rutgers University Board of Governors will vote Tuesday morning whether to approve a privately funded, multi-million dollar recruiting lounge into football stadium expansion plans after axing the amenity last year as construction costs ballooned and fundraising sputtered.

The project was reinstated after private donors stepped forward and pledged a total of $5 million to be paid over an unspecified time, said two university sources who asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to talk about the issue before the Board of Governors votes.

Plans to restore the lounge were revealed in an official meeting agenda, which says the board will consider a "resolution approving the football recruiting lounge and welcome center." The sources said the plush facility will include plasma TVs and scarlet and gray carpeting.

Board members voted in December to scrap the lounge -- along with other extras such as locker rooms and media facilities -- when faced with a $30 million shortfall in the $102 million project that will add 11,500 seats.

Instead of scrapping the project, the board voted to borrow the money needed because officials said the additional ticket revenues were needed to pay for what had already been built.

Jason Baum, a spokesman for the Rutgers athletic department, said the university would wait to discuss details of the lounge until after the board's vote.

A group pushing to reinstate six sports teams eliminated by the university during a 2006 budget crunch submitted a letter to the board protesting the proposed expenditure.

"What's more important: the reinstatement of the best and the brightest student athletes, or a recruiting lounge?" said Robert Stanicki, a spokesperson for the group.